Organizing and consolidating information dealing with simplifying life since January 2006, to help those considering a lifestyle change as well as those expert at living an abundant life in a frugal way.

November 25, 2016

It's been a long, long time since I chose to live a simple life -- I started this blog as a part of that process, back in January 2006. It's amazing to realize this blog is almost 11 years old.

Your life is your life. You only get one. YOLO, right? With your free will, you make choices that have consequences. Not choosing is still making a choice.

So I chose to live a voluntary simplicity lifestyle. What that means, to me at least, is all over this blog.

Choosing a Simple Lifestyle

I'm proud I had the courage to choose the path less traveled way back when. As a lawyer, choosing to live a life of simplicity back in the mid-2000's was not understood by lots of folk. To many, I was nuts.

I don't know how much that's changed or how much I've just stopped worrying about the approval of others.

What the Heck?

What the heck is going on here? I know Preppers. Heck, there are some of my Fancy Friends who think I'm a Prepper. They worry because I don't know the trends and don't like credit cards.

Then the Preppers worry that I'm not doing what I need to do in order to survive the impending economic explosion. I'm not working each week on implementing a Survival Plan. I don't know how to can food.

But back when I began on this road, I don't think there were that many folk living in their cars. And I mean cars or vans, not RVs or Travel Trailers. That's the subject of another post for a different day.

I have used YouTube quite a bit this past couple of months to research my NaNoWriMo thriller, and in the midst of all that video surfing, I have discovered a great many YouTubers chronicling their lives as they live in their vehicles.

Living in Your Car as a Simple Living Lifestyle Choice

This choice, just like any version of simple living, isn't a One Size Fits All. Each story is unique, as is how each person approaches simplicity -- or minimalism, the term that's arisen since I started this blog.

Thing is: when I began looking around online, it's not all fun and games. There are people living in their cars because they have no option. They're more the homeless stereotype of the "van down by the river" and they aren't so happy or excited.

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Hi!

I'm Reba Kennedy, a Baby Boomer who is happily living the voluntary simplicity lifestyle in San Antonio. I began blogging about this way of life here in January 2006 for two reasons: to keep track of stuff and to share what I've found with others - like you, Dear Reader.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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